Modifying Application Launchers

I've been unable to find documentation outlining how to change commands issued by the application launchers in the start menu. Specifically, I need to add 'sudo' to the command of one launcher so that launches the program as 'root'.

Re: Modifying Application Launchers

Hi Jeeproxx , to modified the command applicaiton launcher ,you shuld locate the .desktop file under /usr/share/applicacitons, for example , if you want modified launcher of synaptic, you should open /usr/share/applicacitons/synaptic.desktop whit your favorite text editor and replace the line :

Re: Modifying Application Launchers

Heya Gamin!

Thanks for the help! I moded the .desktop file to EXEC=root application and the application launcher disappeared from the menu. To clarify... the distro I'm using is a moded version of Fedora 7 and sudo isn't part of the picture? Don't ask. So unfortunately i've got some more work to do before I can make this a reality.